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RUSSELL Simmons is speaking out! The music mogul has written a long letter to President Barack Obama in which he urges the world leader to remember the poor. The letter, which appears on the Hugff

LOS ANGELES--The killing of a Canoga Park bowling alley employee was a racially motivated crime tied to gang activity, L.A. prosecutors say. A co-defendant charged with the 2008 murder of James Sha

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CHICAGO--Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan is using the current conflict in Libya to renew interest in the Nation of Islam. The Chicago News Cooperative reports that Farrakhan’s defense

RIVERSIDE, CA--Banning city officials are conducting an investigation into allegations of racism and discrimination at the Banning Police Department after one current and two former officers issued a

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NEW YORK — Very tight braiding or weaving is linked to a permanent type of hair loss that affects many African American women, new research suggests. Don't miss these Health stories featurepics.

John Legend isn't happy with Donald Trump. But it's not so much The Donald's supposed ambitions to run for president in 2012 that have upset the Grammy-winning pianist; it's Trump's insistence on ques

APRIL 9, 2011 How to Get a Real Education By SCOTT ADAMS I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group

NEW YORK – African-American student leaders from a variety of historically black colleges and universities took out full page ads in numerous American college newspapers Thursday, displaying an “Open

NEWSWEEK.com--Henry Louis Gates Jr., known to all as “Skip,” remembers the day he became obsessed with the subject of race. It was 1960, and he was 9 years old, staring at his grandfather’s corpse lyi

USATODAY.com--Gen. Carter Ham told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Wednesday that US troops may have to be sent to Libya because there is little chance of the opposition Transitional Nationa

O'FALLON, Ill. — A 28-year-old African-American man has been indicted for sending threats signed from the KKK to officials in the southern Illinois community of O'Fallon. A federal grand jury has i

The following article contains excerpts from the Historic Press Conference Addressing Events in The Middle East & The Libya policy of the Obama Administration the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan de

Peace To All: Explain to me why there are so many nut cases in this country. Consider, President Obama was born in Hawaii. Hawaii has been a state for 50 years. The 27% of the people in South Carol

Forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi have captured four journalists, two of whom are U.S. citizens. One of the reporters, Clare Morgana Gillis, has reported for USA TODAY, TheAtlantic.com and TheCh

TYLER (April 7, 2011)--Maricela Aguilera Rodriguez of Tyler is accused of dressing as a man, arming herself with a knife and a stun gun, and then barging into what turned out to be the wrong house to

Meet the "First Family of Education" in England. They are black. Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London, are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the h

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued a challenge and delivered guidance to the next generation of Black leaders on the campus of Howard University here April 2.